Push view controller when I “click” over uisearchbar

Question

I want to push a UIViewController into the UINavigationController when I click over a UISearchBar , such that the keyboard does not appear, just open the new view, and when I come back, show some string in the UISearchBar .

Thank you

Answer 1

 yoursearchBar.delegate = yourDelegateObject;

Then inside your yourDelegateObject Class, have this UISearchBar delegate method

 - (BOOL)searchBarShouldBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{

       // Here write the code to push to new view controller
       return NO;
 } 

Answer 2

You could place a custom UIButton over your UISearchBar and push the new UIViewController on button press OR you could set your UIViewController as the UISearchBar delegate and implement searchBarShouldBeginEditing , return NO to prevent input and push the UIViewController from this "delegate" method. You will also probably need to implement some form of delegation to have your string on coming back to the pushing UIViewController in order to populate it in the UISearchBar

Answer 3

You can use your custom UIView instead of the standard keyboard. Just set in code:

UISearchbar *mySearchbar = [[UISearchbar alloc] init];
mySearchbar.inputView = myInputView;

If you now tap on the searchbar your myCustomView will appear on the bottom of the window (where the keyboard is located usually).